RESUMO
Having seen 192 cases of cancer of the endometrium treated at the Institute Paoli-Calmettes between the years 1975 and 1980, the authors have been able to evaluate the place of surgery in the planning of treatment of Stage I and II cases. They hold that: Laparatomy is well tolerated, in 90% of cases of Stage I, 88% of cases of Stage II, 70% of older than 70 years of age and 79% of patients who have some wasting there was no operative mortality. The need to re-explore Stage I and Stage II cases surgically (14%) especially when invasion of the ovaries had not been recognized before histological examination exists. The bad influence of the 5 year survival rate of histological grade 3 or where the myometrium was deeply invaded or where the pelvic lymph nodes were invaded. Studying this personal series and other series found is the literature shows that there is no great value in clearing the pelvis of lymph nodes in order to plan the post-surgical treatment. This is because generally lymph node involvement in the pelvis is associated with other factors that are unfavourable prognostically and these factors can be determined more easily than by removing the lymph nodes. They are, grade 3, invasion of the cervix, positive peritoneal cytology and when the myometrium has been invaded more than 50%. It was only in two cases out of 122 that study of the lymph nodes of the pelvis altered the treatment.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
